Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-30
MILLIONAIRBS IN EMBRYO
The Rich Men of the United States and
1heir SpecuIations - Rufus
Hatch and His Turkeys.
Cs L. Huntlngf0n's BUTTERFLY Geuid's
Mouse Traps and Meps-Fore-
psugh's 10-Cent Menagerle.
senator Farwell al Eight Dollars q Month
and Whitelaw Reid at Five
Dollars Week.
ICopyr,ghted 1887. Bv the A1tbor

copyrighted 1887. By the Author.
So you want to be rich?
O'course you do, my boy! There has
been hardly boy or 8 man since the
world began who has not wanted lust
this thing. But wanting and getting are
two different things and the getters are
few es the wanters are many. Still the
world never offered such opportunities
tor money making as it does now, and the
age Of millionaires as far as America is
concerned mas come to stay. We have
now 10000, 600 people but we have 9
country winch will support 600,0OO,OO0
We are growing st the rate of 100000 a
year, and we are the biggest manufactur-
ing and agricultural nation OF
this rich round earth. Still
we are but in our infancy, and
while we are growing to ten times our
present size there will be always work
and money to spare. The early bird and
the sll day bird will continue TO cateh the
worm OF wealth in your life time and
mine, IS il has done in those Of cur
fathers, and the paths to gtortune will be
| so plain that he who runs may read them.
Don't growl st your circumstances and
your prospects. Your circumstances are
| better than the past ones of many rich
man Of to-day, and whatever your pros
| poets are now you are to make what they
| will be in the future.
| Are you s farmers boy? P. T. Barnum,
| the millionaire Snowman pIoughed corn
when he was your age for ten cents adsy,
and after he was twelve years of sge
carried his own clothes. Senator ice
Brown of Georgia, the richest man in the
south, W glad to make his first money
by ploushing his neighbors' fields
with q pair CT bull calves, and
Howe, the sewing machine millionaire,
sold butter and eggs from farm. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt began his life by farm
ing, and the boys who are COW working
upon farms will do three-fourths OF the
work Of the next generation.
Are you clerking in G store?
Look at the number OF rich men who
have risen from clerkships to riches, and
compare their former salaries with yours.
See Wannamaker at S1.25 week. Dave
Sinton dishing out sugar over an Ohio
counter for 81 month, and George W.
Childs an errend boy for book seller at
not much higher salary You are
poor clerk indeed If you are not making
more now than these men did at your age,
and if you think your work is not full of
possibilities, can show you other places
Still worse out of which have bIossomed
millions.
How would you like to be bsr tender?
Well! P. 7. Barnum earned q salary
ss bartender in Niblo's theater when
he first came to New York. Flood, the
California millionaire, kept q saloon on
Washington street in San Francisco dur
ing his earlier experiences in the west,
and Vassar sold beer and oysters during
part Of his career. Barnum's early life
WAS mixed up in speculations of oil kinds.
He was book agent and was once the
proprietor of q patent bear grease for the
hair, and he at one time owned
grocery store. He was tWenty-four
years OF age when he began speculation
IN shows and his first freak was the nurse
of George Washington, an old Degress
whom he bought in Philadelphia for
$1,000 cash. She died seven months sitter
be bought her but by showing her in New
York he made enough to prove to himself
that there was millions in the business.
Since then he has spent fortunes in this
way, and one of his best investments was
the Jenny Lind concerts which brought
in $4,000 and which Melted Barnum
more than half million in nine mouths
George l. Seney's father was Meth
odist preacher and Phil Armour was
bound out as boy and he got his en-
ployer to release him when he went to
California. Paul Tulane, the millionaire
philanthopist, who died year Or so ago,
lesvipg fortune to number of colleges,
was years ago merchant tailor in New
Orleans, and George Lsw, the great
bridge builder, who left S12, 900, 600
when he died in 1882 spent his life be-
tween eight and twenty-one in milking
cows and working on farm. His father
kept him at work for himself until he
WAS of age and he began life with just
$40 which he had managed to save during |
his time.
The story of LAWS first earnings is in
teresting and shows the spirit which |
afterwards made his fortune. He was |
looking for work in Troy. N. Y, when he
saw hod-carrier fall from ladder up |
which he was carrying load of bricks. |
The man broke his leg and Law at once |
applied for his place. He was given it |
and the foreman, as he saw him totter
about with his hod on his shoulder, told |
him he would be certain TO break his |
accident himself and his greatest anxiety
was that he might fall before the day was
over and lose his wages. He did not,
however, and received 81 after hard
days work. He kept on the next day
and the next, and WAS soon making SI.75
8 day. He continued to increase and by
lucky investment and hard work laid the
foundations for the fortune which he left.
Most OF our rich men hsVe been hard
workers, and those who have succeeded
have, like Law, taken the first thing that
came to hand and done it we'll. They
have adopted Goethe's motto of doing
the thing that lies nearest them and of
doing it with their whole might. A. 7.
Stewart, the millionaire dry goods mer-
chant, taught school as industriously as
be sold goods in after life, and he kept
his hard work up until he left this life for
the hands OF the. body-snatchers. Potter
Palmer formerly attended to his dry
goods store in Chicago as closely as he
now does his grand hotel, and "Lucky"
Baldwin worked hard, years ago on his
Iather's farm in Indiara. Jim Keene
once drove a milk wagon in California
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